Hat-cord holder.



L. C. E.

HAT CORD R.

APPLICATION FILED 3. 1918.

1,283,720. Patented Nov. 5,1918.

IZ MIHWWNA LUTHER C. GAGE, 0F COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK.

HAT-CORD HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented NOV. 5, 1918.

Applicationnled FebruarylS, 1918. Serial No. 216,992.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUTHER O. GAGE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cooperstown, in the county of Otsego and State of New York,have invented new and useful Improvements in Hat-Cord Holders, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for holding in place the cord such as iscommonly used upon a hat like the service hatof the U. S. Army; and hasfor its object to produce a device of this kind that will securely holda plurality of convolutions of the cord in proper place with relation toeach other and to the hat body, that may be easily applied to the hat,either during the course of its manufacture or thereafter by the user,that is inconspicuous when applied, and that can be manufactured atsmall cost.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a side view of a hat to whichmy invention has been applied.

Fig. 2 i a vertical sectional view through the holder the parts beingvery much enlarged.

Fig. 3 is a side or face view of the holder on the same scale as is Fig.2.

Fig. l is a vertical sectional view showing a different form of theinvention from that illustrated in the views already described.

In the drawings, A represents a hat having a brim a. To the hat body isapplied a cord B that takes the place of the usual hat band, the cordbeing passed a plurality of times around the hat body-twice in thoserepresentations of the invention appearing in the drawings. It is heldin place by one or more of the holders that consititute my invention, asmany of these to each hat being used as may be found necessary. Inpractice, not over two, one on each side, will ordinarily be required.In the form of invention shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the holder consists ofa central post or stem 2 and two arms 33 branching from the outer endthereof. The stem is passed between two convolutions of the cord andthrough the material of the hat body as represented in Fig. 2, and isscrew-threaded at its end, as at 4:. The arms 33 engage with and hold inplace the convolutions of the cord inthe desired relation to each other,and are preferably curved on their inner sides to the better engagetherewith. The outer exposed surfaces of the arms may be formed andplace lies fiat against the inner face of the vertical portion of thehat body, and between the part of the hat body with which it engages andthe sweat band C. The nut 5 when screwed into place draws the arms 3into close engagement with the convolutions of the cord, securelyholding them in place.

In that form of my invention shown in Fig. 4c the stem or post 2 of theholder is hollow and internally screw-threaded and with this engages thescrew-threaded shank 6 of the clamping nut 5'. In the use of this formof the invention the shank 6 passes through the hat body to engage withthe post or stem 2. The end ofthe stem 2. may be shaped to pass throughor partly through the body of the hat, or it may be shaped so as to havea face between which and nut 5 the hat body is clamped. The shape of theclamping nut 5 or 5 is not material to my invention, although I preferthat it should be circular in outline. It is quite important that itshould be thin so that, when lying between the sweat band C and the hatbody, its presence will scarcely be detected.

What I claim is:

1. A holder for a hat cord having means for engaging with and holding inplacethe convolutions of the cord in the positions they are desired tooccupy on the hat body, and a standard piece carrying the saidcordholding means and adapted to pass through the hat body and to beclamped thereto.

2. A holder for a hat cord having a stem that is adapted to pass betweenthe convolutions of the cord, through the material of the hat body andto be clamped to the latter, and diverging arms carried by the outer endof the stem and shapedto engage with the separate convolutions of thecord and to hold them in place close against the hat body in the desiredrelation to each other.

3. A holder for a hat cord having a screwthreaded stem portion adaptedto pass through the body of the hat, arms carried by the said stem andadapted to engage with and hold in place in proper relation to eachother the convolutions of the hat cord, and a thin nut engaging with thestem of the holder and adapted to occupy a position between the sweatband and the body of the hat pierced by the stem.

i. A holder for a hat cord inning means for 5 engaging with and holdingin place the convolutions of the cord in the positions they are tooccupy, such means being shaped on their inner sides to conform to theshape of the cord, and on their outer sides to simulate the appearanceof the cord, and means for securing the said cord-holding means to thehat body.

LUTHER C. GAGE.

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Washington, I). G.

